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The FUTURE!

Reading some of the replies, I remember the milkman, the mail slot in the side of the house that emptied into the kitchen breakfast nook, and my favorite, the Helms Bakery truck. They had the best damn cookies, they were like todays Pepperidge Farms Milano cookies, except fresh from the truck.
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I look quite different from my five brothers and sisters. Never had a DNA test, but have wondered if the milkman is my dad. Read more

I’d like to see this make a comeback, but instead of milk (because it’s gross) let’s get a fresh pizza man. Read more

I loved my dad’s stories of milk and coal deliveries in the Back of the Yards in the early 50s. I mean, everything unequivocally sucked back then, but nostalgia is a powerful drug. Read more

My house is in a residential section of a city, built in 1922. My mailbox is the old milk delivery box. The inside is still a door you open. The outside door was removed, covered with siding and a mail slot installed long before we bought the house. Read more

Oh boy, my mother sure seems to remember him. Read more

Accurate.

Imagine the field is a giant pool.

But we have table service and all day breakfast at McDonalds, so fair trade.
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You’ve seen so many asshole drivers, do you really want to trust those guys to operate a flying car?
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Since the first Super Bowl, they have said that by Super Bowl 50, we would all be flying around with jet packs and have flying cars. Read more

I’ve got a fascination with these things from when I was a kid. Couple of years ago, I did some research and built a digital model of the most modern version of the Bell Rocket Belt. Remarkably, no interest in any super bowl unless there is going to be a jet pack demonstration. Here’s the video of my model....

I only know I could never shoot a dinosaur. My stay on Venus would be exciting but brief. Bury what’s left of my shredded body at the base of Atanua Mons.
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In about seventy years someone will rightly make fun of some stupid things that people today think. Read more

“harnessing of atomic energy just might hold the key to universal peace and travel to distant planets.”

You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you. God damn you all to hell!

Yikes. This guys somewhat, ah, “literal” designs of his monuments leave something to be desired. Read more

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Ooh. This should be a level in Half Life 3.